Hay-rack.



. No. 737,097. I v PATENTED AUG. 25, 1903.

. J. J. G UIDINGER. HAY RACK.

ABPLIOATION FILED mm r n, 1903.

N0 MODEL.-

. at one side of the rack.

. UNITE STATES.

iatented August 25,1903.

JOHN J. GUIDINGER, OF NEWTON, WISCONSIN.

HAY-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,097, dated August 25, 1903. i

Application filed July 11, 1903. Serial No 165,044. (No model.) I 7 To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOI IN LI. GUIDINGER,

hay-rack of simple but strong and enduring construction that can be inexpensively made and that is built of such material and so formed and provided with connecting and binding devicesthat the hay-rack can be quickly and readily put onto the runninggear [of a wagon or analogous vehicle and the parts can be easily and securely fastened together even by a boy, so as to-form an assembled hayrack on the vehicle ready'for' carrying a load and adapted to be as readily and easily disassembled and removed from the vehicle, and when so removed is capable of being packed and stored away in an exceedingly compact form. Other benefits growing out of my improved construction are incidental thereto or to its value as an improved construction.

The invention consists of the hay-rack, its a parts and combinations of parts, as herein described and claimed, or the equivalents thereof.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved rack on the bolsters of a wagon. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the improved hayrack. Fig. 3 is an end view of the improved rack. Fig. 4; is a detail of the construction, one member being in cross-section. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of a fragment of the top rails Fig. 6 is. a top view of the edge of oneof the side boards. Fig. 7 is a front View of one of the cross-frames forming a part of the hay-rack.

In thetdrawingspA A represent the bolsters of a wagon with their standards, on which bolsters the hay-rack in Fig.1 is placed, indicating the manner of use of my improved hay-rack with a vehicle. The hay rack emrack is to be used and the loads that will be put thereon. These Sideboards are provided with a pluralityof sets of staples 3 3, fixed in the side boards on the outer surface thereof, the staples of each set being arranged one above the other in substantially vertical line and at such points inthe length of the side board as cross-frames are located in the rack. These side boards, especially if it is desired to elevate the rack a little more than the width of the side boards would elevate itabove the bolsters, may have, blocks 4 4 bolted to their lower edges at the points where the side boards would rest on the bolsters, and these blocks may be recessed in their under sur faces to receive the bolsters therein, so that the side boards will be prevented from being shifted endwise on the vehicle. A plurality of cross-frames are employed, four being shown in the drawings,'which severally con- .sist of a bottom bar 5 and top bar 6 and two intermediate uprights 7 7, secured together advisably by means of nails or screws and also advisably by means of binding-bolts 8 8 through the top and bottom bars just inside of the uprights 7 7. L

In assembling the parts of this hay-rack on a vehicle the side boards are first placed in positionon the bolsters, and the cross-frames are then inserted between the side boards at substantially equal distances apart, the two outer cross-frames being placed near the respective front and rearends ofthe side boards. Thereupon clamping-rods 9 9 are inserted in apertures therefor through the top and bottom bars 6 and 5 and medially through the sets of staples 3 3.

The cross-,

The clamping-rods are provided with heads that restlon the tops of frame.

the'oross-bar and the top bar of the cross- Each of the cross-bars is provided with a transverse cleat 13, secured to its top surface, one near each end of the cross-bar and projecting therefrom advisably toward the front. The cleat is fastened to the crossbar by any convenient means, as bolts or screws. These cleats are for securing the side rails to the cross-bars, as hereinafter described.

Two sets of side rails are provided for the rack--one set at each side thereof-each of which sets of rails consists of the longitudinal fiat rails 14 14, arranged opposite and parallel to each other at a little distance apart and secured to each other in sets by means of the cross-ties 15 15, the cross-ties equaling in number the number of the crossbars and being so disposed on the side rails and secured thereto on the under side of the rails that one cross-tie will when the side rails are in place on the cross-bars come immediately in front of each of the cross-bars and under a cleat 13. The side rails are to be placed in position on the cross-bars by resting a set of the rails on the ends of the cross-bars in such position that they can be pushed backwardly on the cross-bars, and the cross-ties will pass under the cleats 13 when thus pushed rearwardly. Thereupon the side rails are secured in place by locking bolts 16 16 through one of the rails of each set and through a crosstie, advisahly the rear cross-tie. By this means the side rails are secured detachably in position on the cross-bars against displacement either forward or back or laterally and in such manner as to be readily detached when desired.

The rack may be provided with longitudinal bottom boards 17 17, placed on the bottom bars 5 5 of the cross-frames, and this bottom may be employed with the complete hay-rack or may be used only in connection with the side boards and cross-frames, the cross-bars and side rails being removed by taking out the binding-bolts 12 12.

venee What I claim as my invention is- 1. A hay-rack, comprising side boards provided with rod-receivingstaples, cross-frames having top and bottom latterally-projecting bars between which the side boards fit, clamping-rods through the top and bottom crossframe bars and through the staples in the side boards, cross-bars on and secured detachably to the cross-frames, and side rails on the cross-bars.

2. In a hay-rack, side boards provided with rod-receiving staples, cross-frames having top and bottom laterally-projectingbars and intermediate uprights against which the side boards face, and clamping-rods through the top and bottom bars of the cross-frames and medially through the staples in the side boards.

3. In a hay-rack, side boards, cross-frames mounted on and between the side boards, means securing the side boards and the crossframes detachably to each other, cross-bars mounted on the cross-frames and provided with projecting cleats, sets of rails one set at each'side the rails of each set being separated from each other and secured together by crossties adapted to take under the cleats and to bear against the sides of the cross-bars, and means adapted to lock the side rails in position detachably in engagement with the cleats.

4c. In a hay-rack, cross-bars provided with forwardly-projecting cleats, sets of side rails each set of rails consisting of two parallel rails at a little distance apart and connected together by as many cross-ties on their under surface as there are cross-bars, said crossties being adapted to take under the cleats, and means for locking the side rails on the cross-bars in engagement with the cleats.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN J. GUIDINGER.

Witnesses: J. P. NOLAN,

VICTOR J. NOLAN. 

